Open AccessPsychological well-being in medical undergraduates in a rural medical college in South India
Author(s) -
P Sreelatha,
Sumana Gundam,
Praveen Arun,
Sumalatha Ryali
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/ipj.ipj_20_20
Subject(s) - stressor , psychological distress , affect (linguistics) , psychology , medical psychology , medical education , psychological stress , clinical psychology , scale (ratio) , mental health , medicine , medline , psychiatry , physics , communication , quantum mechanics , political science , law
Medical colleges strive to create a learning environment best suitable for undergraduate medical education. In this process, measures taken can affect and influence the medical undergraduate psychological well-being. The demands of medical education lead to a psychological distress far beyond that experienced by the students of other specialties.